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Which century do the Lords think they live in?So the assembled House of Quangocrats (sorry, we couldn’t help it), former MPs, diplomats and political hacks otherwise known as the House of Lords has voted to put an end to the Conservative’s EU Referendu…

David Cameron and François Hollande have just held their joint press conference following the Anglo-French defence summit in Oxfordshire. Predictably, though, most of the questions focused instead on Cameron’s EU renegotiation strategy and the prospec…

Our Director Mats Persson writes on his Telegraph blog:Many commentators have rightly noted that infighting over the EU and immigration could cost the Conservatives the 2015 general election. There’s a second dimension to this, however: by tearing itse…

Okay, we know this is not exactly breaking news (the original story is from September 2012), but it came to our attention again and we felt compelled to post on it.Back in the heyday of the eurozone crisis, Le Parisien interviewed Guy Abeille (see pict…

We shouldn’t fear a robust debate about Europe – whether in Europe as a whole, domestically or within individual political parties. It’s called democracy.This week’s Westminster news cycle has been dominated by Tory splits and rebellions (again). The…

Has the Liikanen report become the Barnier plan?Update 30/01/14 11:45:Some eagle eyed HM Treasury officials have flagged up that the recitals of the proposal (the preamble points before the articles of the regulation) do allow for the derogation to app…

Under its former ODS government, the Czech Republic, was a card carrying member of David Cameron’s reform camp. Traditionally wary of “ever closer union”, the Czech Republic refused to join the Euro, objected to the Charter of Fundamental Rights&n…

Despite being barely a month into 2014, there have already been countless column inches written about the ECB and President Mario Draghi’s potential actions during 2014 (mostly to tackle the ‘deflation ogre’). Is the ECB toolkit empty?As we have …

The EU referendum Bill – pushed forward by Tory backbenchers aiming to legislate now for an EU referendum to be held in next Parliament (post-2015) – passed through the Commons with flying colours but is now stuck in the House of Lords.Labour and Lib D…

Thierry BaudetThis week, the Dutch Parliament held a debate on whether it is necessary to hold a referendum on transferring new powers to the European Union. The debate was triggered by a campaign, called “Citizen’s forum – EU” which managed to gather…